A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted two Los Angeles-area men on conspiracy and hate crime offenses for allegedly attacking five victims last November at the family-owned Café Istanbul in Beverly Hills. According to a release from the Department of Justice, the men perpetrated the attack “while shouting anti-Turkish slurs, hurling chairs at the victims and threatening to kill them.”
Café Istanbul is located on the 300 block of South Beverly Drive. Sam Turac, a nephew of the restaurant owner, gave the Courier details first reported in its November 6, 2020 issue (“Restaurant in Beverly Hills Victimized by Alleged Hate Crime.”)
